The Sun. — London, England, 1818-03-07 00:00:00

'tvhcli have `pirrtlally Ofic,mcaSitres adopted hy the j.egisl.ature, for improving and facilitating Communication iii 'the interior of the Provirree, While we regret with yunr Ex "tellency, that diilictlltic's - and impediments should have occa sioned iklaV in thee...km:o.4m of the Act ; hut we hare also to hope, that these obstaelet will tie surmounted. Expe rience will contribute to the production of this result; and we may indulge the hope, that the Plans approved will be "executed during the.present year. With respect to the Agriculture of the Province, its con dition, hoWever imperfect in many respects, has of late years materially improved. This circumstance authorises _the hope, that means for its advancement, judicially combined, might aceeleiate the production of its resources. And we er•ftel disposed to co-operate in measures having for that object this useful end. Should the Emi;, , ration from Europe continue, it might be a matter woolly of considera tion how far it won'd be advisealde to hold out siCiue induce ment to a few good Farmers to settle in tins Piovnice. A ju dicious select:on from amongst persons of this . description, might render their example useful,and•cotitrilnite tOimprove tre system of Agricnlture in this Province. Y or Excellen cy, in communicating to us the commands you !save received from his lloyal Highness the Prince Itegent;to call upon the. Provincial Legislature to vote the sums necessary to defray the I mii;:ary Annual Expenditure of the Province, rightly entertains the persuasion, that the subject will receise flow us that mattne consideration which its importance deserves. --Your Licellency may rest assured of the desire of the Commons of Lower Canada to apply their most serious at tention to the Estimate which yarn. Excellency pUrposes to lay before them of the sums that wiil be required to defray the civil expeielit Inc of the Government of the Province dur ing the year and may also rest assured of their desire To provide, in a constitutional manner, the supplies necessary for thi, purpose. W e shall, in lii c manner,apply our attention to the Public llevenue.and Expenditure of the last twelve months, in or der to ell ihlt, ourselves to ascertain the means of supply which are :it our disposal. Your Excellency has done its justice in expressing Your con fidence in our lo . yalty and teal fur his Majesty's service, :and in expressing ydur hop.-s of our dutll the present Session, those killers which a sense of duty and gratitude heretaore impelled the Comm:ins of this Province to make, of defraying the civil etpclidiline of his Majesty's Provincial Covernment. We have learnt. with satisfiction, that the amount which has been ascertained to he due from this Province to Upper Canada, for the pro portion - of Duties upon Metchartdize conveyed hither through this Province, has been paid over to the persons authorized on tire part of Upper Canada to ieceive it. We shall give all the attention which your Excellency has a tight to expect, on our part, to the Report of the Commis sioners appointed by virtue of an Act. passed in the last ties to treat with .these of Upper Canada, for the for mation of a new Provisional Agreement between the Pro inceq, which will be /aid before us in conformity with the Provisions of that Act, previous to its being carried into-exe c:ly ion. In calling us together to deliberate on the measures best adapted to advance the interest of the people whom we repre sent, your Excellency may feel assured, that We Shall ever guide our deliberations by the same principles of loyalty,and the same dispositions of mutual Confidence, which we evinced in our last Session, and which your Excellency in your Speech is pleased to acknowledge. We feel secure of the continu ance of your disposition to give lq assistance in rendering ef fectual every measure which shall have for its object the good of this Province ; having already ~ t erived front those disposi tions such happy results under your Excellency's paternal ad tninist ration. Under such auspices We have to augur conse quences nm.t beneficial to our Country, observing every mea sure of your Excellency to be governed by the principle of eipsity, and by those of a Constitution and a Government vhich are founded on the base of the public welfare. To which Address his Excellency was pleased to retnrn the followimz Answer : Gentlenma of the House of Assembly, _ Accept my best thanks for this Address; the desire you therein express to provide to a constitutional manner the sup plies required for• the year 181 S, and your assurance of tak— ing into consideration the other o•blectr to which I hare called your attention, demand my acknowledgments'. And I feel confident that yon will discharge the very im portant duties vou are called upon to per form. in such a man lier as cannot fail to gratify nay wishes, and conduce to the elfare of the Province. Sundry petitions for bridges and other private patters were presented and reterred to special C mn wit tees. After which it was resolved, that in testimony of respect, and of participation in the grief i>cca -sioned by the unforeseen loss and neitiotia) effla fnity whereby the Royal Family and British Em pire arc afflicted, in the premature decease of her Royal Hight / less the Princess Charlotte Augusta, daughter of his Royal Highness the Ptinee Re gent, and Consort of his Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Cohourg, and of her Infant, this House do abstain from proceeding on the public business, and do adjourn to Wednesday next. And the House atijoUrned accordingly to Wed tresday next. PROVINCIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, QaxLec, Jail. 15, 1815. His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been to appoint— Jocrlya Wailer, Esquire, Clerk of the Crown for this Pro vince. _ _ And Etienne Mayrand, Esquire, a Commissioner for In ternal Cunnuunications•in and for the County of St. Maurice, and that part of the County of Hampshire which is depend"- tut upon the District of Three Rivers, in the room of B. Ptul Wagner, resigneti. We are happy to learn that a S t age starts every Thtir3day 'morning-, at 12 o'clock, from Three Rivers, up the River St. Francis, for Stanstead, a n d t h ere me e ts th e Boston and Albany Stages ; the Houses of Entertainment are considet ed ex cOlent for so new a country, and the fare only 4d. per mile. A number of Gentlemen of this City dined to gither on the 3lst ult. to commemorate the (!e -feat of the Americans it) the assault of this City, and with a view to revive an anniversary cele bration of an event so honourable to the inhabi tants of Quebec- . After the cloth was removed the following toasts were thank— 1. The 4. The Prince Regent. •• • 3. The Queen and Royal Family. • 4. The Dotic of Clarence and the Nary. 5. The Doke of Yorlt and the Army. 6% The Duhe of Wellittg,ton and the Heroes of Waterloo. 1. His Excellency Sir John C. SlierlirmJie and the Pro vince. 8. The Canadian Militia of 1775-if, particularly the 31st of December 177.5, the day memorahle fur the defeat of our eneiniet in the assault of the city: 9. The Constitution of Canada, connrincint; its 2G year since the 27th Deceniher. • May we duly appreciate its good effects and enjoy all the liberty which it bestows. 10. The Legislatore of Lower Canada. 11. Colonel De Salaberry and his brave Comrades of Cha teaugay. 12. The battle of Chrystler's Farm the 11th November, 1813, and the different coops which distinguished thmselves on that day. 13. The Voltigeurs and Incorporated Militia during the last war. 14. The Brave Militia of Upper Canada. 15.' Our Sister Colonies—their happiiies and prosperity. I€. Out Commissioners for settling the Boundaries of the Province, may they be amicably adjusted. 17. Our friend and guest, Lieut.-Colonel Bouchette, Sur veyor-General—may the country fully acknowledge his ser vicet. Her MAJESTY'S Birth clay is to be celebrated at the Castle on the 19th instant, of which an official notice has been given. 11le Quebec Assembly has been well attended this winter ; the regulations have given great sa , tisf*ction to the Subscribers. HAMI3URGI-1 PAPERS. Hatol::i'rgh Papers to the 25th ult. came to haild las . t night. The following are extracts :- 14 SToCKnoLNI, FEB. IG.—Count Gustavus Von Lowenhielm,is goOe to Sr. Petersburgh ; the son of Field Marshal BaronEssen t to Paris ; Barou Nrotellildt, to Vienna Major-Genegitl Von Her" gen Stra - ele, to Berlin ; and Col. Von Clairfeld, to Copenhagen, with the news , ' of the death of his Majesty King Chatles X 111.; and of the acces sion. of King Charles John. The deceased King has bequeathed to her Majesty the Queen, all the ready money in his private coffers, the Estate of Rosersherg, and ails. own private jewels., on con dition of ;heir reverting to ,t it e Crown after her Majesty's death. His Majesty's will is said to contain directions that the court mourning shall last only three months, and the theatres be re opened its six weeks. The present King con tinues to be extremely afflicted at the death of his predecessor. He expects his consort from France. " Our new King would not be proclaimed till lie had performed his devotions in the Chapel of the Palace, as a duty to our late Monarch ; a way of thinking which has increased the respect of the nation for him. " The direct cominunication with Fin Lind has been in;ecrupted for some days (since the 3-0;h January), over the Guiph of Bothnia, the sea be ing full of floating ice ; travellers are therefore obliged to go by land by way of Torne.a. " PETERSBUIiGIi. FEB.• 7.—The Emperor will stay here till. thc Wilt. Lord Cathcart, the Bri tish Ambassador, General Prince Wolchensky, Clriet of his Majesty's General Staff, and all the Adjutants-General, have returned from Moscow to this The house of Platzmann and Goss ler, in this-city, has stopped payment. " VIENNA, FEB, I l —The circumstantial ac count in the ihmtrian Observer, of the event at Algiers, has excited universal attention. It is confidently said that measures will be taken by the great European Powers, in common, against those pirates, who violate all laws of nations and humanity ; and that the Order of Malta, .which in its origin was so well adapted for the purpose, will probably again receive the commission, and the means to check the enormities of those bar barians, and will perhaps obtain in the sequel set tlenients or fortresses on the north coast of Africa, in order to keep them down entirely. " DESSAU, FEB. 13.—Yesterday evening the marriage of the Princess Louisa of Anhalt.Dessau, with Prince Gustavus of Hesse Homburg, was solemnized in the palace of the Duchess Dowager, mother of the bride." TO CORRESPONDENTS, LANFRANC, certainly, on Monday. THEATRICAL REGISTER. COVENT-GATIDEN.—AN OfrATonto. DHURY-LANE.—No PERFORMANCE. MAILS. ARPIVED-1 Dublin, I Hamburg b , Flanders. Dry E-9. Wa terford, I Guerlisry andjersey, 1 Holland, 4 Gottenburgh, / France, 3 Hamburgb. • PRICE 01 TPHS DAY AT T STOCK. • • F. LV E IMCK. 3 per tent. 771iji Exch. hills 2d.... II 9. 12s. pr. 5 per Cent. N. Ann— . 105- k lf Ditto, 21d. 1 is. 16s. India liond,s ....965. pr. Cons. fin Apri1,..771 78 77i/ New Annuities. 77i HIGH WATER A'l' LONDON 13RIDGE To -Nionßow. Morning,, 43 minutes after 2. I Evening, 17 unnutea after 3. THE SUN. 3OLEM QUM DICERE FALSUM Atith:AT LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1818. We regret that it becomes our most painful task to continue the publication of the distressing details from the coast. We are very apprehensive also, that from the violence of the wind list night and this (lay, we shall again have similar dismal ac counts. The following are our letters of this day from the different Ports.—We understand tha‘t consequence of the state of the weather; no In • surances whatever can be at present effected at Lloyd's : DEAL, MARC"; G.—=Wind S.W. moderate. — Arrived, and sailed for the River, the Hannah, EDWARDS, 6om New Brunswick, with loss of anchor and cable.—ln addition to what we stated yesterday, we learn, that the Industry cutter, and two brigs, coal laden, foundered in the Downs dui.- Itg the gale, in consequence of a large Swedish ship having run foul of them. The brig Hartley, Cb:cNua, from Shields to Grenada, is missing, and it is much feared that she is one of them run foul of by the - above Swedish ship. " Fire o'Ciock.,—The Blenheim has not yet been heard of. WEYMOUTH, MARCH G.—Three pieces of wreck have been thrown on shore, with the let- ters " —cueatt's " " DUP.," on them,, this therefore, we think, will establish the name of Mercuere du Havre. Up to this moment no part of the cargo has been seen, except a few pounds of soap, so complete has been the destruc tion. The beach tor miles is strewed with frog ment4.- Five more bodies were washed on shore List night, dreadfully mangled. Her cargo appears to have been principally casks of wine, tanned hides, lemons, &c. &c. " DARTMOUTH, MARCH 5.—A French • West Indianian drove on the Rocks between the Prawle and Start Points, about 10 milei from h ence ,'and soon went to pieces ; her name is La Jenne Ce.. cite de Coen ; her cargo is ail lot, anti not one of the crew are saved. A few grains of cocoa and a few cocoa nuts have been washed on shore, and there is a great quantity of staves on the rocks, which appear to belong to sugar casks, and nothing else to be seen but pieces of timber and plank. " FALMOUTIL, MAAQ,I-1 4.—At day-light this morning the wind was from the W.S.W: and moderate ; about 11 A. M. it backed to the South ward,, and from that to the S. S. E., and since that time to the present moment (1' 2. . it has. blown a hurricane, with a heavy sea. The ships in the Roads- and Harbour appeared, a little be fore dark, to ride it out well, but t am afraid we shall hare some damage to the Westward, as the wind is dead on the share, and the weather very thick. " PORTaNIGUTH, MARCH s.—ln consequence of the very dreadful state of the weather last even ing, the communication across the water to Gds port was completely cut off. So tremendous a gale was never before experienced . at this place, and the only boat that made an attempt to come uver was upset, and four passengers and two wa termen drowned. " The Ryde packet went out this morning a 5 far as Spithead, but was obliged to return with her sails tort) to pieces, being unable to proceed, havi;►g carried away the ford part of the vessel. " A strong south east wind caused the tide to ;Ise higher than was ever known at Portsmouth. Point-street was entirely under water, in some parts six feet deep, and has done incalculable mischief. The foundations of some of the house, near the water are almost washed away, and great fear is entertained for their safety. A great number of boats, which had been drawn up on the shore, were carried away and dashed to pieces. A collier sunk at Shithead during the gale, and gill go to pieces—the crew saved. A boat, with three officers, a Waterman, and two others, com ing from his Majesty's ship Tiber, upset and-all perished. " At Ryde (as we mentioned yesterday) nearly the whole of the wood part of the pier is washed away, and most of the small houses standing near the sea are washed clown. Numbers of people have been empl.yed the whole day in picking up posts and pieces of timber which have floated on shore." " MARCH S.W.—Arrived the brig Neptune from Sunderland. The galliot Triton, OUNEN, which drove out of Co wes Harbour in the late gale, yet remains , on shore near Saar's Point. The collier reported yesterday as sunk is bilged, and it is feared cannot be got off. It has blown extremely hard all day, but we have not heard of any further damage having been done. " DOVER, MARCH s.—Yesterday evening the weather came on very bad, and in the night the gale increased to a perfect lintricane, attended with violent thunder and lightning. We hear shocking accounts from along the Coast ; at Deal two lndiamen and one Convict ship are stated to he lost on the Goodwin Sand, and all perished ; a large Swedish ship ran on board the Industry Revenue Cutter, and so far damaged her, that she was abandoned by the crew,,and drove on board two colliers, which sunk, and all the crews perished ; the ship went for Ramsgate Pier, and was lost going in. There are stated to be sixteen sail of vessels on shore, and nine teen sail are said to be distnasted. The Parish Church at Ash is, burnt with the lightning ; se veral houses are unroofed a stable and a barn blown down at Sibert's Would, and much'da mage done to the buildings in and about Dover. The weather hits been very alarming about - here detrly; on Sunday night last, at Calais,, the light ning struck several persons blind for a short pe riod, and a man and a horse were struck Clown on the road near the town ; the sweeps of a mill were struck off between Calais and Boulogne, and much other damage done. " HAttwrcu, Manor 6.---Arrived the Castle reagh packet, with a mail, from Holland. Sailed the Charlotte packet, with mails, &c. &e. " LIVERPOOL, MARCH 5.-1 he Parker and Sons, --; from New Orleans, has been a shone on Berkenhead Rocks, and has lost her rudder and received other damage. The Eliz;theth, APINTosH, that sailed for Chichester the day befo7e yesterday, has put, hack with loss of an anchor and cable, foretop-sail-yard, and jib-boom. " SuteLns, MARCH 4.—We have had a heavy gale of wind last night, in which six ships came on shore on the Black Middens, five of them have been got off, but the Mary Anne, of Whitby, TINDALE master, remains on shore, and is likely to • become a wreck ; - the crews of all are sate. The Aurora, —, of London, has got into harbour with loss of her foremast. " SUNDERLAND, MARCH 4.—Last night we experienced a most tremendous yule of wind from the S. S. %V., during' which the (Laming ships came on shore behind the North Pier, vii.the Flora, of Port ; Gaston, of Whitby ; Sisters, of do. ; William, of do.; Ocean, of Lynn; and the ttobert and Francit, of do. They have all been got 'off with damage, except the Sisters, gone re pieces, and the Robert and Francis sunk. • " INTATIOATE, MARCH 6.—The cutter, reported yesterday, and also to-day, to have foundered in the Downs, has been brought in here, and proves lobe the Industry Revenue cutter. The sehooner Maria, LorEys, was also brought in here last night, with loss of anchor and cable. The Barrosa, Lord Melville, Victory, mail Phoenix, have sailed limn Paus.and Hole this morning. The Java, Indianian, and the Dutch -ship Franklin, remain off this port. Captain nerroLs, and part of the crew of the Marquis of Wellesley, whet landed here yesterday, have gone off again to the ship with an anchor am! cable 7 The following is an Extract of a- Letter from. a Captain of a Ship lying, in the Downs, to his , Filend itt London, dated March 6:— Thank GoD, we are all well after the galatt, It came on to blow at 7 r ar, on Wednesday, and the wind tiew round to about south at 10, the wind still increasing, and a most tremendous sew running. About half-past 10 it blew a perfect ho ricane when I found we were driving, let go ano— ther anchor, and brought npagaio, although I ex. peeled it was impossible to hold on, as several ship . weredriving It wart our hawse.We were near bert4 run down by three different ships, if they hall struck us we must have ,one down. I never wit— nessed such a night since I was . at sea, of wind? rain, th'under and lightning it was as dark a% pitch. At daylight next morning the scene wat , truly dreadful to look upon ; it was enough t strike every one with horror to see the shore strewed with wrecks in all directions, and !•hip9 dismasted all about. lam informed that 3 vessels foundered .at their anchors, or were run down one is said to be the Hadley, bound to Grenada.'"- " EXETER, MARCH 5.—A most tremendous storm visited this place and neighbourhood from, about yesterday atterntion till midnight. , tvreen this and Honiton I G large trees were blown down, and completely cros'sed the road, and several of the mails alld couches Lave not aP, rived. We have again to announce the non-arrival of Paris Papers. Two days' Journals are due. We shokdd be• much surprised at the motiort proposed by Lord ALT,Rosra last House of Commons, for the .:Zedue!ifyri of the . Army, at this period, if we did not know th e pa-. tent inflitence of Party. The proposed rednctiori was, indeed, only to the amount of 5000 met , ' but surely the Noble Lord has been totally inat— tentive to the proceedings of France, which endeavouring to procure an Army to the ?mounc of 240,000, and if such art Army should be raised in that Country, who can tell for what pupose ic might eventually he employed ? The French A1i.... nistry, in general, may have only the defence of the Country in view, but the French soldiers , have a strong revolutionary taint, and the Mi-• nistry might be too feeble to resist, if that ArMy should fall under the direction of Jacobin Leaders, as . might then be expected, considering the artful character, and popular pretences of re-. volutionary Demagogues. We would therefore advise Lord ALTHORPE to read and rellcct npoa. what is passing in France, and what might be dreaded by Europe, it GREAT BUITAYN, to whose perseverance all Europe is essentially indebted for deliverance, were to reduce her militarr strength while the military strength of France ;51 apparently making such formidable advances. For this rea3on we place no dependence on the re port that the Atitun Troops are 1:Icely to with-. draw from France, as we deem it a measure of e:c.‘. t reme impoliev,pregnant with incalculable dangers.. We turn from p toy feelings and hazardous spe culations, to a subject intro , !uced last night by Mr. Cnor:Ett, e.'ho proposed the consolidation of all Acts relative to the discovery of THE LONGL" Tune, a subject of high and perpetual impor tat►re. In the course of his speech, Mr. CROKE& gave a brief, but cleat:• and interesting, history of the several attemps to effect this important ob— ject, and proposed t n a►idition to the Board of Longitinle.of persons eminently conversant with,' nautical science, three ot whom to have a hun ,,, Bred a-year each ; suri•ly a very moderate salary' for Gentlemen protound in the requisite know tedge, yet Mr. licouGnAm could not restrain his refurmiNg itch, but hinted that he thought it too large ! !—h k nee.lless to add, that Mr. CRoxEs ()brained leave to bring in a 13d1 for a purpose so laudable in itseif, so interesting to Navigation, and that may eventually produce advantages highly beneficial to mankind in all future ages. Thursday evening- her iIAJRSTY had a select party at the Palace, .(7 • ,p